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▪️The Justice Department will launch a crackdown on corporate crime “in the weeks to come".
▪️Travis Scott "absolutely" should have stopped his show at the Astroworld Festival as chaos unfolded, the Houston fire chief said.
▪️An EU court has upheld the European Commission's 2017 ruling to fine Google 2.4 billion euros ($2.7 billion) for an antitrust breach.
▪️Joe Rogan has slammed Democrats who call Black conservatives "White supremacists", saying they are "outta their f---in' mind".
▪️The House Select Committee will be allowed to access over 700 pages of 6 January Capitol riot-related documents beginning on Friday.
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▪️The Justice Department will launch a crackdown on corporate crime “in the weeks to come".
▪️Travis Scott "absolutely" should have stopped his show at the Astroworld Festival as chaos unfolded, the Houston fire chief said.
▪️An EU court has upheld the European Commission's 2017 ruling to fine Google 2.4 billion euros ($2.7 billion) for an antitrust breach.
▪️Joe Rogan has slammed Democrats who call Black conservatives "White supremacists", saying they are "outta their f---in' mind".
▪️The House Select Committee will be allowed to access over 700 pages of 6 January Capitol riot-related documents beginning on Friday.
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😳 Former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo joked about anal sex and AIDs as well as gossiped about the Kennedy brothers, according to an upcoming book by his former press secretary, Karen Hinton.
📌 The book claims that Cuomo was invited to the White House along with others to advise Bill Clinton on his scandal with Monica Lewinsky.
"I think we can probably defend oral sex", the book says. "'But I have to draw the line' — here he paused for effect — 'at presidential a** f*cking'", Hinton writes, purportedly quoting Cuomo.
📌 The woman also claimed that Cuomo spread rumours about the two Kennedy brothers.
"The two of them are f*cking the same woman. She likes to get f*cked in the ass and some days she goes from one Kennedy house to the other to get it twice in one day", he reportedly said.
❌ The ex-governor's representative, Rich Azzopardi, has denounced the book and its claims, accusing Hinton of rewriting history and “chasing headlines” to sell it.
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📌 The book claims that Cuomo was invited to the White House along with others to advise Bill Clinton on his scandal with Monica Lewinsky.
"I think we can probably defend oral sex", the book says. "'But I have to draw the line' — here he paused for effect — 'at presidential a** f*cking'", Hinton writes, purportedly quoting Cuomo.
📌 The woman also claimed that Cuomo spread rumours about the two Kennedy brothers.
"The two of them are f*cking the same woman. She likes to get f*cked in the ass and some days she goes from one Kennedy house to the other to get it twice in one day", he reportedly said.
❌ The ex-governor's representative, Rich Azzopardi, has denounced the book and its claims, accusing Hinton of rewriting history and “chasing headlines” to sell it.
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🇺🇸🧑⚖️ Russian national Igor Danchenko has pleaded not guilty in a US court to charges of making false statements to the FBI about alleged collusion between Trump and the Kremlin, a Sputnik correspondent reports from the courtroom.
The trial in the case has been scheduled for April 2022. Danchenko will stay under supervised release until the trial.
The trial in the case has been scheduled for April 2022. Danchenko will stay under supervised release until the trial.
🤔 California's Board of Parole Hearings have for the fifth time recommended that Leslie Van Houten – a Charles Manson follower – should be released from prison, where she is serving a life sentence.
The woman, who is now 72, was a 19-year-old when she joined the murderous cult.
She helped members of the Manson Family in the assassination of Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, back in 1969. The double murder happened just a day after the cult's most notorious massacre, when Manson followers killed pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four others.
Gavin Newsom, who has been governor of California since 2019, and his predecessor Jerry Brown, both vetoed Van Houten's release.
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The woman, who is now 72, was a 19-year-old when she joined the murderous cult.
She helped members of the Manson Family in the assassination of Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, back in 1969. The double murder happened just a day after the cult's most notorious massacre, when Manson followers killed pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four others.
Gavin Newsom, who has been governor of California since 2019, and his predecessor Jerry Brown, both vetoed Van Houten's release.
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📈 The price of bitcoin reached a new historic high at $69,000, according to trading data.
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📹: A person is seen climbing up the Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Virginia.
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❗️ Kenosha shooing defendant Kyle Rittenhouse has testified at his trial for murder that he received death threats from Joseph Rosenbaum, the first man he shot on August 25 2020.
Rittenhouse's lawyer asked him if there was any friction between the group he came with to protect local businesses in the Wisconsin city and protesters or rioters provoked by the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
“The only type of conf... stuff that happened was that the person that attacked me first threatened to kill me, twice,” the 18-year-old said.
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Rittenhouse's lawyer asked him if there was any friction between the group he came with to protect local businesses in the Wisconsin city and protesters or rioters provoked by the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
“The only type of conf... stuff that happened was that the person that attacked me first threatened to kill me, twice,” the 18-year-old said.
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❗️ Kenosha shooing defendant Kyle Rittenhouse has testified at his trial for murder that he received death threats from Joseph Rosenbaum, the first man he shot on August 25 2020. Rittenhouse's lawyer asked him if there was any friction between the group he…
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📹: Kyle Rittenhouse breaks down and sobs while testifying in his own defence.
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👎 In the third quarter of 2021, Big Tech censorship became even more significant, according to a report by the US Media Research Center.
The watchdog gave the companies controlling major social media platforms a median "F" grade for their policies.
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The watchdog gave the companies controlling major social media platforms a median "F" grade for their policies.
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Rosenbaum “was gonna kill us motherf*ckers, motherf*cking n*ggers, and rip our hearts out”.
JoAnn Fielder, one of the defence witnesses at the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, described death threats from Joseph Rosenbaum – the first man Rittenhouse shot dead.
JoAnn Fielder, one of the defence witnesses at the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, described death threats from Joseph Rosenbaum – the first man Rittenhouse shot dead.
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🤣 Did you know that 330 million Americans are suffering from "electile dysfunction"? US-based non-profit RepresentUs claims they are in a witty satirical ad that the organisation launched on 10 November on their social media.
The two-minute clip goes over numerous US democracy issues, such as government shutdowns, the filibuster, and gerrymandering, while making references to erectile dysfunction – from language choice, to an image of a "flaccid" Washington Monument.
The two-minute clip goes over numerous US democracy issues, such as government shutdowns, the filibuster, and gerrymandering, while making references to erectile dysfunction – from language choice, to an image of a "flaccid" Washington Monument.
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🙈 The Simpsons’ predictions of real-world events continue to blow everyone’s minds.
🤔 The latest theory by some fans suggests that they also predicted Travis Scott’s recent Astroworld Music Festival.
With examples such as their prediction of a billionaire in space, though they didn’t name Richard Branson, or Donald Trump’s presidency, the Fox show has managed to baffle its viewers for over three decades.
And now, fans aren’t able to unsee a detail shown in one of its old episodes after the Astroworld tragedy.
🤔 The latest theory by some fans suggests that they also predicted Travis Scott’s recent Astroworld Music Festival.
With examples such as their prediction of a billionaire in space, though they didn’t name Richard Branson, or Donald Trump’s presidency, the Fox show has managed to baffle its viewers for over three decades.
And now, fans aren’t able to unsee a detail shown in one of its old episodes after the Astroworld tragedy.
💥 Radio icon Howard Stern says it could be his “civic duty” to run for president in 2024 if Donald Trump makes another attempt at the White House.
Stern even gamed out how he would handle the debates: by playing the recordings of Trump pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn the 2020 election results.
“I would just sit there and play that f*cking clip of him trying to fix the election over and over again,” Stern said. “There’s no way I’d lose.”
Stern even gamed out how he would handle the debates: by playing the recordings of Trump pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn the 2020 election results.
“I would just sit there and play that f*cking clip of him trying to fix the election over and over again,” Stern said. “There’s no way I’d lose.”
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🟩 Big cannabis companies are backing a new, celebrity-infused campaign to enlist marijuana users to pressure members of Congress to legalize pot nationwide.
Federal legalization has advanced somewhat but still faces strong headwinds on Capitol Hill. The "Cannabis in Common" initiative launched Tuesday aims to change that – and it has nabbed actor Seth Rogen and comedian Sarah Silverman to push its message.
"Legalizing cannabis is long past due, and if we make enough noise, we can make it happen," Rogen, co-founder of a cannabis company and enthusiastic user of the drug, says in a kickoff video.
Federal legalization has advanced somewhat but still faces strong headwinds on Capitol Hill. The "Cannabis in Common" initiative launched Tuesday aims to change that – and it has nabbed actor Seth Rogen and comedian Sarah Silverman to push its message.
"Legalizing cannabis is long past due, and if we make enough noise, we can make it happen," Rogen, co-founder of a cannabis company and enthusiastic user of the drug, says in a kickoff video.
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📉 The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to a new pandemic low 267,000 last week as the job market recovers from last year's sharp coronavirus downturn.
Still, the economy remains more than 4 million jobs short of where it stood in February 2020.
Still, the economy remains more than 4 million jobs short of where it stood in February 2020.
💸 Republican billionaire Ken Langone says he plans to host a fundraiser for Sen. Joe Manchin after the conservative West Virginia Democrat blocked key elements of President Joe Biden’s agenda.
The comments came as Democrats in Congress continue to hash out major parts of Biden’s economic agenda, namely social safety net spending and plans to battle climate change.
Langone, in an interview Wednesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” praised Manchin for his “guts and courage” and explained that he was set to raise money for him. Manchin is up for reelection in 2024.
The comments came as Democrats in Congress continue to hash out major parts of Biden’s economic agenda, namely social safety net spending and plans to battle climate change.
Langone, in an interview Wednesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” praised Manchin for his “guts and courage” and explained that he was set to raise money for him. Manchin is up for reelection in 2024.
🥴 California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday explained that he dropped his plans to travel to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, last week because his children begged him to stay with them for Halloween.
Newsom said his children staged "an intervention" and called for him to remain at home.
“I was ready to go, and I had that dinner — a lot of you know this dinner — with the family, and the kids literally, they kind of had an intervention, they said they couldn’t believe that I was going to miss Halloween,” Newsom reportedly said.
Newsom said his children staged "an intervention" and called for him to remain at home.
“I was ready to go, and I had that dinner — a lot of you know this dinner — with the family, and the kids literally, they kind of had an intervention, they said they couldn’t believe that I was going to miss Halloween,” Newsom reportedly said.
🙅♂️ Coachella organizers are under pressure to drop Travis Scott from their line-up after eight people lost their lives during his latest performance in Texas.
The beleaguered rapper is being sued for 'inciting mayhem' while onstage at Houston's Astroworld on November 5, prompting a catastrophic crowd surge that killed eight and injured 'dozens more.'
An online petition is now urging Coachella promotional firm Goldenvoice and their company CEO Paul Tollett to axe Scott, 29, from the event, which takes place in southern California on 15-17 and 22-24 April 2022.
So far close to 25,000 signatures have been added to the change.org appeal, noscriptd 'Remove Travis Scott as a Goldenvoice performer.'
The rapper has already been dropped from a forthcoming appearance at the Day N Vegas festival in Nevada, where he was originally slated as a headline act.
The beleaguered rapper is being sued for 'inciting mayhem' while onstage at Houston's Astroworld on November 5, prompting a catastrophic crowd surge that killed eight and injured 'dozens more.'
An online petition is now urging Coachella promotional firm Goldenvoice and their company CEO Paul Tollett to axe Scott, 29, from the event, which takes place in southern California on 15-17 and 22-24 April 2022.
So far close to 25,000 signatures have been added to the change.org appeal, noscriptd 'Remove Travis Scott as a Goldenvoice performer.'
The rapper has already been dropped from a forthcoming appearance at the Day N Vegas festival in Nevada, where he was originally slated as a headline act.